--- title: A helicopter's spinning blades are long thin wings going round in a… — Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones · tree and pragmatics description: A helicopter's spinning blades are long thin wings going round in a circle, a drone does the same with four or more small rotors, and a hot-air balloon simply floats because hot air is lighter than cold air. Who acts: spinning blades, long thin wings, air balloon, hot air. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spinning blades, long thin wings, air balloon, hot air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:5 # text = A helicopter's spinning blades are long thin wings going round in a circle, a drone does the same with four or more small rotors, and a hot-air balloon simply floats because hot air is lighter than cold air. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 helicopter helicopter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 5 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 8 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 round round ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 drone drone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 18 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 rotors rotor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 simply simply ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 36 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 40 mark _ _ 37 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 advcl _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a helicopter's spinning blades | long thin wings | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go round** | gerund | long thin wings *not said here* | | | a circle | | round *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in circle=Location | | 3 | **be** | present · do-support | a helicopter's spinning blades *not said here* | | | | | with four or small rotors | tree rules | | 4 | **float** | present | a air balloon | | | | | simply *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | hot air | | | | | than cold air; light *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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